Appendix B
Biographical Sketches of Steering Committee Members

V. JOSEPH HOTZ (Chair) is arts and sciences professor of economics at Duke University. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Duke Population Research Institute and a research affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty and the National Poverty Center. He is also a fellow of the Econometric Society. Previously, he served as professor and chair of the Department of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests include labor economics, economic demography, and evaluation of the impact of social programs. He has served on several panels of the Committee on National Statistics, including those on the Census Bureau’s re-engineered SIPP, and access to research data: balancing risks and opportunities. He has a Ph.D. degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin.

LYNN A. BLEWETT is principal investigator and director of the State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) and professor in the Division of Health Policy and Management at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. She also directs the State Health Access Reform Evaluation (SHARE), a national program office to fund and synthesize rigorous evaluation of state health reform initiatives. Her current area of research is defining and measuring underinsurance and documenting the development of local access to care programs, community-based initiatives to meet the primary health care needs of the growing number of uninsured adults. Her prior health policy experience includes work for the U.S. Senate and the Minnesota Department of Health. She has a

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Appendix B
Biographical Sketches of Steering
Committee Members
V. JOSEPH HOTZ (Chair) is arts and sciences professor of economics
at Duke University. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of
Economic Research and the Duke Population Research Institute and a
research affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty and the National
Poverty Center. He is also a fellow of the Econometric Society. Previously,
he served as professor and chair of the Department of Economics at the
University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests include labor
economics, economic demography, and evaluation of the impact of social
programs. He has served on several panels of the Committee on National
Statistics, including those on the Census Bureau’s re-engineered SIPP, and
access to research data: balancing risks and opportunities. He has a Ph.D.
degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin.
LyNN A. BLEWETT is principal investigator and director of the State
Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) and professor in the
Division of Health Policy and Management at the University of Minnesota
School of Public Health. She also directs the State Health Access Reform
Evaluation (SHARE), a national program office to fund and synthesize
rigorous evaluation of state health reform initiatives. Her current area
of research is defining and measuring underinsurance and document-
ing the development of local access to care programs, community-based
initiatives to meet the primary health care needs of the growing number
of uninsured adults. Her prior health policy experience includes work
for the U.S. Senate and the Minnesota Department of Health. She has a
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Ph.D. degree in health services research, policy, and administration from
the University of Minnesota, a M.A. degree in public affairs from the
Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Min-
nesota, and a B.A. degree in psychology from the University of Wisconsin,
Madison.
MICHAEL DAVERN is vice president and director of the Public Health
Research Department in the National Opinion Research Center (NORC)
National
at the University of Chicago. Prior to this appointment, he was at the
University of Minnesota School of Public Health, where he was an assis -
tant professor of health policy and management and research director
of the State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC). He also
codirected the U.S. Census Bureau Research Data Center at the university.
He previously served as a statistician for the Labor Force and Transfer
Programs Statistics Branch of the U.S. Census Bureau. A major focus of his
work has involved applying state-level data to health policy issues and
helping states monitor trends in health insurance coverage rates. He has
a Ph.D. degree in sociology from the University of Notre Dame, a M.A.
degree in sociology from Colorado State University, and a B.A. degree in
sociology from Saint John’s University.
LISA C. DUBAy is a health services researcher with over 20 years experi-
ence in public health. She recently joined the faculty at the Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public Health as associate professor. Prior to this,
she was a principal research associate at the Urban Institute, where she
focused on the effects of public policies on insurance coverage, access
to care, and health outcomes for low-income populations. She has led
numerous national evaluations of public expansions in coverage for fed -
eral agencies and private foundations. Her dissertation examined socio -
economic gradients and racial disparities in children’s health status and
well-being and their emotional and cognitive functioning. She has exten -
sive experience analyzing nationally representative household surveys.
She has Ph.D. and S.C.M. degrees from the Johns Hopkins University.
JOAN HENNEBERRy is executive director of the Colorado Department
of Health Care Policy and Financing and leads the agency responsible
for managing public health insurance programs, including Medicaid and
Child Health Plan Plus. She is a senior health policy adviser to the gov-
ernor, developing and implementing health reform policies and initia -
tives. Prior to the cabinet appointment, she worked in the private sector
after spending 7 years at the National Governors Association providing
consultation to states on health care services and financing, cost contain -
ment, and emerging policy issues. She spent 13 years at the Colorado

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Department of Public Health and Environment, chairs the board of the
Colorado Regional Health Information Organization, and serves on the
Executive Committee for the National Academy for State Health Policy.
She has a M.A. degree in management, and completed the Senior Execu -
tives in State and Local Government Program at the Kennedy School of
Government at Harvard University.
CHRIS L. PETERSON is director of eligibility, enrollment, and benefits
at the new congressional commission MACPAC, the Medicaid and CHIP
Payment and Access Commission. Prior to this, he was specialist in health
care financing in the Domestic Social Policy Division of the Congressio -
nal Research Service (CRS). He has written and testified extensively on
Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) funding issues and formula
allocations, as well as on survey estimates of low-income uninsured chil -
dren. His work for CRS also covered issues and options for a health insur-
ance “exchange,” risk pooling, mandates, minimum benefit standards,
actuarial values, subsidies, tax policy, public programs, and other federal
statutes and regulations. Previously, he worked at the Agency for Health -
care Research and Quality and the National Bipartisan Commission on
the Future of Medicare (Breaux-Thomas). He has an M.P.P. degree from
Georgetown University’s Graduate Public Policy Institute and a B.Sc.
degree from Missouri Western State University.
ERIC V. SLUD is professor in the statistics program at the University of
Maryland. His research includes the evaluation of models for small-area
poverty estimates from census and Current Population Survey (CPS) data
and analysis of nonresponse-adjusted survey estimates. He is a fellow of
the American Statistical Association and a consultant to the U.S. Census
Bureau. He was a member of the National Research Council (NRC) com-
mittee to review K-12 standards in mathematics and served as a reviewer
for a previous NRC study on the American Community Survey. He has
a B.A. degree from Harvard College and a Ph.D. degree in mathematics
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.